The first table below looks at the demand for WebLogic skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebLogic over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the Middlesex region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle WebLogic Server
Rank 24 31 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Contract jobs citing WebLogic 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 0.500% 0.324% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.704% 3.030% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £475 £550 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.63% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £43.50 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-20.90% +37.50%
All Application Platforms
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
27 33 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 13.50% 10.68% 17.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 19 26
Average daily rate £443 £365 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.23% -18.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £234 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £495 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 11
Average hourly rate £16.00 £19.52 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.03% +22.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
WebLogic
South East

WebLogic
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WebLogic across the Middlesex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Middlesex WebLogic Jobs Demand Trend

WebLogic
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WebLogic across the Middlesex region.

Middlesex WebLogic Daily Rate Trend

WebLogic
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WebLogic across the Middlesex region.

Middlesex WebLogic Hourly Rate Trend

WebLogic
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex region citing WebLogic also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited WebLogic.

1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) Solaris
1 4 (100.00%) Apache
2 3 (75.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) JBoss
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) WebSphere
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (50.00%) NetApp
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) Middleware
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (50.00%) UNIX
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) IIS
3 2 (50.00%) EMC
3 2 (50.00%) Citrix
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (25.00%) Sun
4 1 (25.00%) CCNA
4 1 (25.00%) HP
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (25.00%) N-Tier
4 1 (25.00%) SMTP
4 1 (25.00%) HTTP
4 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (25.00%) HTTPS

WebLogic
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex region citing WebLogic also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited WebLogic. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (50.00%) Middleware
3 1 (25.00%) ASP
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) Apache
2 3 (75.00%) Tomcat
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (50.00%) IIS
4 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (25.00%) Site Server
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SMTP
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Management Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Solaris
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) UNIX
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) AIX
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 2000
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) MCSD
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) JBoss
3 2 (50.00%) NetApp
3 2 (50.00%) EMC
3 2 (50.00%) Citrix
4 1 (25.00%) Sun
4 1 (25.00%) HP
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco